November 27, 2024 • 19 mins
Today on the UnNamed Podcast, the guys try to talk about what they are thankful for. However, Jerry goes deep on the state of the New Zealand economy in the late 1980s.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
True welcome. Like the Unknowned podcast, there's day the twenty
eight that Nobe in betweenty twenty four ruters here and
she's here as well. It's Thursday the twenty eight means
that it's Thanksgiving days. What are you thankful for? Jerry?
Good question, Mash. What am I thankful for? Well, I'm
thankful for my friends, that's nice. For my family, Okay,
(00:28):
I'm thankful for my partner, Very thankful for my partner. Actually,
really really thankful for my partner and all the things
that she does for me and my family and all
that sort of stuff. This is the studding. It's done
a little bit too positive. Now she's very good to me. Yes, no,
it's something a good situation. Where are you man? She
fills out forms for me and stuff. That's one of
(00:49):
the nicest things anyone could ever do. And for me
she films out forms. She fills out forms for me
so I don't have to fill out forms because I
hate filling out forms so much. She'll fill them out
for me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Then will she present the form to you for you
to sign or does she just fake your signature?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
She'll present it to me for me to sign. Okay,
present what to you the form? Oh, although she'll present
her form to doesn't fill out to patch arrival cards.
It's one thing going when you're on planes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
She sucks. It's always me that has to seem to
do that one. I hate doing that, but.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Still I reckon that might be my least favorite piece
of edmon in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh, it's an annoying one. If you don't have to
do it anymore? No, why not? You can do it online? Bullshit.
You can get your partner to do it for your online.
It's great. Well, I mean you could do it yourself online,
do you know? You get your partner to do that.
And then the other one is insurance forms and claims
and stuff. TOLSI does that for me, right, okay? And
I have to do that, which is so good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Those nights away in hotels, she poss those bills? Oh
my god, look at all those credit card expenditures that
we've got.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Going on there. Where are you, Jerry?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You spending so many nights and hotels alone? No, I
pay the bills. Do you make sure that you're paying those?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I pay the bills? Yeah, what's this? What's this one?
What's that one? That's text deductible. You get fifteen of that. Yep,
GST also contributes to your text of income. That makes
it sound like you're running some kind of service out
of there of sorts. Okay, what are you thinkful for? Reader?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm just thankingful for my friends and my family. Let
me my partner, all right, now, he's not he's not
thankful for us. We've got a couple of thingful for
my wife. We've got a couple of TJ. Pett and
others in here. All right, what are you thankful for?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The shot? What is that supposed to be? Because he
does that powerade ed where he goes.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm so thankful for my family and do it for
my fa Oh fin sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What what come on, hot shot? What are you so
thankful for?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Not a lot really Actually, at the moment, ye're typical
your generation, you know, not having a great time.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What's happened?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Off the vapes's probably the number one issue that I'm
kind of facing at the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But that's good. Why would that be a bad thing
that you're off the vape, ah.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Because that's kind of a long time nicotine addiction that
I'm coming off the back of.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, but that's good, you're not doing it. That's a positive.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, that's a glass artful approach. But that's not really
what Coming off a nicotine addiction helps it more aids
a glass off empty approach.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You are not addicted to nicotine anymore. You are not
addicted to nicotine anymore. That is over. You haven't now
been vaping for nearly two weeks. Nearly two weeks. You
are not addicted to nicotine in the least bit. You
have no physical addiction to nicotine at all. I just
crave it. No, you don't crave it. It's a habit.
(03:47):
You're just breaking a habit.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah. Actually, that is about the only time that I
think about it. Why are we talking about vaping. I'm
supposed to be talking about the things I'm thankful for,
if I'm being honest. Okay, I'm thankful that I've given
up the vape.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah that's there. We go. See, You're going to think
I'm thankful for ye family.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, that's sorry to interrupt. Can I just say I'm
I'm really grateful for Mesha's partner.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Can I just say that you're you're grateful that she's
my partner.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm grateful for.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Loss as a person, as a person, as an all
around individual, because you haven't addressed it yet.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm grateful for loss. That's a good I know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I still won't to address that I am because she's
grateful like an heir of you, really, isn't you? Yeah,
ibbs and flies. Sometimes you love him, sometimes you don't.
Thankful for you, guys. I get quite lonely at times
up in Auckland, and I feel very lucky that all
the time. Man, I'm ass home a lot. That's my
(04:45):
family a lot. Yeah, should you yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Are you sure? Oh? Actually maybe no? You've asked me that, No,
I do. I do.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'm thankful for you, guys. I'm thankful that I have
a good job that I can come to do.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, the job that you can come and to do
is a good job opposed to a job that you
can't come and to do it.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, I was going to say a job that I
can do, but then there's going to be feedback about
whether I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
My feedback, thanks, you're good at parts of it? Yeah,
there you go. Well you are, You're really good at
parts of us some of it. Well, why couldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You just say you're really good at it, and then
just leave that there well.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Because well that would not be true. I mean, you're
really good at parts of your like really good at
parts of your job. You're really good, so good like
the button pushing, amazing, amazing button pushing, A great timing,
I reckon, I reckon arguably the best. You know, I
would say, the best button pusher that I've ever worked with.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, and that's and I've worked with a few. You've
just got beautiful timing. You've got to push the buttons on.
I can see with the songs. It's not it's a timing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's actually it's actually fractions of a second which make
the difference between someone who's really good and then someone
who's good.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
That's what I try to tell laws exactly, is be
thankful for the fractions when you're pressing your buttons.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I am thankful for living in a country like ours. Yep,
you're going deep. I like it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I'm thankful for the fact that I have food on
the table. Yep, I'm thankful for you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Let's go and what you're not thankful for, Oh, hates
of stuff Jesus right now. Russia.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, RACEA is not not a greater the moment. I mean,
I don't want to get too political on it. What
am I not thankful for?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Um? Watermelon? Do you know what? Actually we can go deep.
What's wrong with watermelon?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Fucking hate watermelon? Do you ruder? Do you really hate watermelon?
Nobody hates watermelon. I want to like. This is probably
actually the thing that upsets me the most about it.
I want to like watermelon.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I see people annually devouring watermelon, buy the melon, and
I look at it and I think that looks delicious,
That looks refreshing, that looks tasty, that looks juicy. And
then I get myself into a state where I think
maybe this year is the year I'll try some watermelon.
I'll be like, you know what, this is pretty good
and I put it in my mouth. Act Jesus Grist,
(07:23):
clean that up. Quite gross the.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Cameras on today because that was disgusting cameras.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So you tried it every year and then at least
every two years most years.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And have you can I go? Can I ask you
a questions that what about justin? Have you ever tried
it overseas? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I have, because quite often I think, like places like Thailand,
I think plays like the Gold Coast. If you go
to a buffet breakfast, yep, they'll have things like watermelon.
I'm like, maybe I'll try it here. I just don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
There's different types of melon as well. There's different types
of watermelon eight rock melon for instance. Big ones, fucking
hat big ones, small ones. Yeah, big melons and small melons.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
There's I had a watermelon recently and I feel like
it was in Australia and it was so sweet, like
it was red ass and it was not watery at all.
It was even though it was watermelon, that was it
was milky really really it tasted like watermelon lollies. Oh
I see that's a nice watermelon.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh good, because you know, I even just like her
for a watermelon and a blender or the inside part.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You know, you're I've been talking about this party of
your mother's a lot actually lately, your mum's sixtieth. That
we had a couple of eightieth ye about a year ago. Really, wow,
there was a watermelon on the table there. Actually, Jerry
and I tried to start up the game actually of
you know, when you cut the watermelon in half and
hold it over you downstairs, and then the first and
you're the partner of the first person to finish the
watermelon ones.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I'm sure that would have gone down really well. Yeah,
I didn't catch on that one. No, I don't know.
I don't understand why. Maybe that's the game that we
should play here because about eighty percent of the people
there were, you know, in their eighties.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Oh is that why that didn't catch on? Yeah, maybe
there's a couple of people that I was targeting. Though
there's a few people. I mean Dicky Wells. He looked
like he had much of melon. He likes melon. He
likes melon.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
My kids actually yesterday we had melon and they just
were all over it. They loved it. They won each Nah,
we got a half a watermelon because they're cheap at
the moment, half a watermelon, and they knocked that thing
off with in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
't just take a break so we can knock this
thing off in about twenty minutes. Good and we're back.
So your watermelon were you're thankful for watermelon?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Was that you that said that you're thankful form You're
not thankful for the faat You can't eat.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Watermel I don't know we're talking about things we're not
grateful for, and I said.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Fucking watermelon. I realized that that's probably not the point
of Thanksgiving. There was it to end up turning it
onto the things.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That were not not Thanksgiving, not Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, So I'm just thankful for everything, man, everything, suit,
I'm thankful for everything.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Boys, I'm thankful for summer, and I'm really happy that
summer's coming around. Where this Sunday, the first is going
to be first of December, and I know that I
look around at everybody I'm speaking to at the moment,
goes this is the same thing to me. Jeez, I
can't wait till the end of the year. I can't
wait till then. This has been a long year, and
I think for a lot of people it's been a
(10:24):
hard year. I think it's been a hard year for
a lot of people. Financially, it's been tough. A lot
of people listening their jobs and I feel for those
people and a lot of people who are running businesses
currently finding it very very tough. In fact, in my life,
I have never seen it as hard as what it
is right now. And that's going back through the late
(10:47):
eighties through nineteen eighty seven through that financial crisis in
two thousand and eight. I think this has been the
toughest year's toughest year of them all.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How a weir would you have been though of the
financial situation in the late eighties?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Was it like eighty seven? Well, a lot of people
went a lot of people were going bankrupt, and so
and I knew if I knew of a few people
whose families who went bankrupt. Oh well, and so, yeah,
I knew a little bit about it. And I used
to watch the news, and my parents watched the news,
so I watched the news every night. And so it
(11:23):
was Unemployment was very, very high in those days. It
was nearly ten percent. Oh Jesus, Yeah, it was much
higher than I don't know why. Maybe they looked at
the unemployment figures were slightly different. I think they had
a different way of measuring them. Maybe, yeah, that could
be the only reason. But yeah, high unemployment. Why has
this year been so tough? Is it because of that
(11:45):
interest rates and so off the back of off the
back of the inflation and the printing of heaps and
heaps of money during COVID to try and keep things
cranking and all that money that was floating around, and
then they went, there's too much money. Inflation's gone up,
the price of everything's gone up, everyone's losing money, so
let's crank things back down. So then they pull Then
(12:08):
they put interest rates up, and then all of a sudden,
everyone has to spend heaps of money on their mortgage
and they don't have any other money to spend, and
then it's a messive problem. It's interesting. Actually, yesterday I
saw the just to be boring, but I saw the
Reserve Bank Governor Adrian orr was congratulating the Reserve Bank
on a job well done on bringing inflation back into check,
(12:31):
and I thought to myself, that's odd. You printed heaps
of money, created inflation. And then they went, there's a
cost of loving crisis. Everything's become really really expensive. There's
way too much money around. We need to now manufacture
a recession. So then they stop printing money, pull interestrates back, sorry,
send interest rates up, and then unemployment goes up, and
(12:54):
then people who's their jobs, everyone struggles. There's no money
around anymore, and then they're congratulating themselves on pulling everything
back again.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's not a great time to be in your twenties
in Auckland and I'm in.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I think in general I'm lucky that I'm in a
solely more you know, fortunate camp. But there's a lot
to think about right now, and a lot of people
are struggling to focus on any kind of fun, aren't they?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I like this when things like this happen. And you know,
it's amazing how many kind of negative other things follow
when we get into this trend of just because you
feel like now right politically, this year been nothing necessarily.
I mean, obviously some kind of major things going on
at the moment in New Zealand in terms of what's
going on with Mary and Packy Horn all that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It just feels like this year there has been very
few positive things to hang your head on and go like,
you know what, God, wasn't that a good moment? And
do we need those moments? I'm just trying to figure
out how do we go into next year and go,
you know what, this feels like a year where we
can make something happen. Are we still hung over from
COVID lockdowns?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Probably? Yeah? Well, this all of this economic stuff is
all to do with COVID. There's just a underlying tension
that is in New Zealand right now. Do you know
what it is? That everything in the end comes back
down to the economy, and that's always been the case.
Everything comes down because if you don't have a job
and you don't have any money, you can't go and
(14:22):
do anything, or you can't look after your family, you
can't pay your mortgage, you're worried about your security and
your house. Everything comes down to the economy at the
end of the day. And people always say about elections,
it's going to be this social issue or it's going
to be that social issue, and people do enjoy talking
about social issues, so they're quite oftentimes passionate about it.
At the end of the day, it's always the economy
(14:45):
because your job affects everything. If you don't have a job,
you don't have any money to spend. Everything stems from that.
So that's the problem that in time like this it's tough.
And then coming into Christmas, when traditionally retail spending would
come up, Yeah, why have we gone all economics on this?
(15:08):
Retail spinning would come up and that would give people
a lot a lot of relief. I know, and a
sector that I've got something to do with the hospitality industry.
It's never been harder. There are more bars and restaurants
shutting down now than ever have been, and that's based
on how much people have to spend discretionary money to spend.
I mean, you don't go out spending money that you
(15:29):
don't have.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
That's pretty incredible because you are involved with one in
particular establishment that I can think. I've been for the
Look in Soda and it's in a great spot on
Podsonbury Road, and yet that is still struggling to even
you know, get anywhere right now, Like it's yeah, and
that's in one of the best locations in probably the country.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, I know we're lucky. Let we still break even. Yeah,
that's all good, but definitely nobody's there's a couple of
establishment and supreenting money. But that's the thing. People don't
feel like they've got confidence and they don't have a
lot of money lying around. So so but that'll that'll
come back. Don't worry, it'll come back next year, year after.
It'll come back because it's cyclical. It has to. It's
not going to be like this for either. So the
(16:09):
good thing is at least I feel like the worst
is gone surely.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So what we've done there is we started showing what
we were thankful for. Yeah, and we got into what
we weren't thankful for, which then ended up chatting about
the fact that no one's got any money.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, I say this normally as a joke. Can we
actually delete this? Actually delete that?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
We can't because we've got kind of Oh we can't.
Actually I think, actually delete that? Well, they stay there.
We could ask him. So I'm actually I'm embarrassed about what.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No, Look, I thought, actually thought it was quite interesting, Jerry,
why did you Why are you embarrassed about?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's just such boring shit? Of course it is boring,
cliche bullshit. Who he is? Okay? Or shall we start again?
Then you really? Yep? And welcome to the podcast for
the way. How do you do it?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You do it? You go? Welcome to the Unnamed Podcast. Thursday,
the twenty out of no in between four it is Halloween,
no Thanksgiving, boys Giving? What's everyone thanksful for?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh? I'm thankful for a lot of things. Actually, in fact,
I'm thankful for everything. I'm thankful for the summer of cricket.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'm thankful for the fact that we can always start again.
You can always start podcasts again. You can always start
life again. Even when you make a mistake and you
look back on something and you think, God, I never
should have done that. That was deeply embarrassing. I'm familiated myself.
You can always It's okay, that's the past, the past,
the past. You can always start again. Hey, sorry, where
do you go?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I was just gonna say, do you know, guys, I'm
so thankful for watermelon. I love watermelon so much everything.
Every year I look no, every year, I look forward
to getting my mouth around the juicy taste of pink watermelon,
spitting out those seeds.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Do you not like the seed? Do you not eat
the seeds? I fucking hate watermelon, the seeds. They don't
have seeds anymore. Did you go to like a shrink
seedless water of melon. That's where it's at, bro seedless
grape suits.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, you don't get what anyone ever had a pup
in the wine, pep in your and your feces. I'm
sure guilty. Okay, right, short one today, boys, that's all right,
(18:32):
just a couple of minutes. We've got to go and
commentation some cricket.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Mister Wells, Yes, looking forward to that. I can't wait.
It's going to be exciting England smashing it around. You
get in New Zealand bowling cricket balls. Why the fucking
we so low here? We had a good radio show. No,
it was good. We've had a good My fault. I
blame myself.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Sorry, no, sorry, I think I actually started getting a
little bit down.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That was the issue with that. I did actually start
to start it. That's my fault. Yeah, take responsibility. She
wants to sit down about this. I'm thankful for I'm happy.
I'm I'm actually very happy.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
When do we get to do the opposite and like,
complain day you don't want.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
To Nobody wants to hear anyone complain.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, I just want to complain about that last fifteen
minutes she did on the economy.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh yeah, well that we've deleted that. So oh you
forgot we deluted that. Okay, all right, love you all
hereby days
True welcome. Like the Unknowned podcast, there's day the twenty
eight that Nobe in betweenty twenty four ruters here and
she's here as well. It's Thursday the twenty eight means
that it's Thanksgiving days. What are you thankful for? Jerry?
Good question, Mash. What am I thankful for? Well, I'm
thankful for my friends, that's nice. For my family, Okay,
(00:28):
I'm thankful for my partner, Very thankful for my partner. Actually,
really really thankful for my partner and all the things
that she does for me and my family and all
that sort of stuff. This is the studding. It's done
a little bit too positive. Now she's very good to me. Yes, no,
it's something a good situation. Where are you man? She
fills out forms for me and stuff. That's one of
(00:49):
the nicest things anyone could ever do. And for me
she films out forms. She fills out forms for me
so I don't have to fill out forms because I
hate filling out forms so much. She'll fill them out
for me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Then will she present the form to you for you
to sign or does she just fake your signature?
Speaker 3 (01:05):
She'll present it to me for me to sign. Okay,
present what to you the form? Oh, although she'll present
her form to doesn't fill out to patch arrival cards.
It's one thing going when you're on planes and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
She sucks. It's always me that has to seem to
do that one. I hate doing that, but.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Still I reckon that might be my least favorite piece
of edmon in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh, it's an annoying one. If you don't have to
do it anymore? No, why not? You can do it online? Bullshit.
You can get your partner to do it for your online.
It's great. Well, I mean you could do it yourself online,
do you know? You get your partner to do that.
And then the other one is insurance forms and claims
and stuff. TOLSI does that for me, right, okay? And
I have to do that, which is so good. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Those nights away in hotels, she poss those bills? Oh
my god, look at all those credit card expenditures that
we've got.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Going on there. Where are you, Jerry?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You spending so many nights and hotels alone? No, I
pay the bills. Do you make sure that you're paying those?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I pay the bills? Yeah, what's this? What's this one?
What's that one? That's text deductible. You get fifteen of that. Yep,
GST also contributes to your text of income. That makes
it sound like you're running some kind of service out
of there of sorts. Okay, what are you thinkful for? Reader?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm just thankingful for my friends and my family. Let
me my partner, all right, now, he's not he's not
thankful for us. We've got a couple of thingful for
my wife. We've got a couple of TJ. Pett and
others in here. All right, what are you thankful for?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The shot? What is that supposed to be? Because he
does that powerade ed where he goes.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm so thankful for my family and do it for
my fa Oh fin sorry, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
What what come on, hot shot? What are you so
thankful for?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Not a lot really Actually, at the moment, ye're typical
your generation, you know, not having a great time.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
What's happened?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Off the vapes's probably the number one issue that I'm
kind of facing at the moment.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
But that's good. Why would that be a bad thing
that you're off the vape, ah.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Because that's kind of a long time nicotine addiction that
I'm coming off the back of.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, but that's good, you're not doing it. That's a positive.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, that's a glass artful approach. But that's not really
what Coming off a nicotine addiction helps it more aids
a glass off empty approach.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You are not addicted to nicotine anymore. You are not
addicted to nicotine anymore. That is over. You haven't now
been vaping for nearly two weeks. Nearly two weeks. You
are not addicted to nicotine in the least bit. You
have no physical addiction to nicotine at all. I just
crave it. No, you don't crave it. It's a habit.
(03:47):
You're just breaking a habit.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah. Actually, that is about the only time that I
think about it. Why are we talking about vaping. I'm
supposed to be talking about the things I'm thankful for,
if I'm being honest. Okay, I'm thankful that I've given
up the vape.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah that's there. We go. See, You're going to think
I'm thankful for ye family.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, that's sorry to interrupt. Can I just say I'm
I'm really grateful for Mesha's partner.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Can I just say that you're you're grateful that she's
my partner.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I'm grateful for.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Loss as a person, as a person, as an all
around individual, because you haven't addressed it yet.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm grateful for loss. That's a good I know.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
I still won't to address that I am because she's
grateful like an heir of you, really, isn't you? Yeah,
ibbs and flies. Sometimes you love him, sometimes you don't.
Thankful for you, guys. I get quite lonely at times
up in Auckland, and I feel very lucky that all
the time. Man, I'm ass home a lot. That's my
(04:45):
family a lot. Yeah, should you yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Are you sure? Oh? Actually maybe no? You've asked me that, No,
I do. I do.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I'm thankful for you, guys. I'm thankful that I have
a good job that I can come to do.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, the job that you can come and to do
is a good job opposed to a job that you
can't come and to do it.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Well, I was going to say a job that I
can do, but then there's going to be feedback about
whether I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
My feedback, thanks, you're good at parts of it? Yeah,
there you go. Well you are, You're really good at
parts of us some of it. Well, why couldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You just say you're really good at it, and then
just leave that there well.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Because well that would not be true. I mean, you're
really good at parts of your like really good at
parts of your job. You're really good, so good like
the button pushing, amazing, amazing button pushing, A great timing,
I reckon, I reckon arguably the best. You know, I
would say, the best button pusher that I've ever worked with.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, and that's and I've worked with a few. You've
just got beautiful timing. You've got to push the buttons on.
I can see with the songs. It's not it's a timing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
It's actually it's actually fractions of a second which make
the difference between someone who's really good and then someone
who's good.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
That's what I try to tell laws exactly, is be
thankful for the fractions when you're pressing your buttons.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I am thankful for living in a country like ours. Yep,
you're going deep. I like it.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I'm thankful for the fact that I have food on
the table. Yep, I'm thankful for you.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Let's go and what you're not thankful for, Oh, hates
of stuff Jesus right now. Russia.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah, RACEA is not not a greater the moment. I mean,
I don't want to get too political on it. What
am I not thankful for?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Um? Watermelon? Do you know what? Actually we can go deep.
What's wrong with watermelon?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Fucking hate watermelon? Do you ruder? Do you really hate watermelon?
Nobody hates watermelon. I want to like. This is probably
actually the thing that upsets me the most about it.
I want to like watermelon.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I see people annually devouring watermelon, buy the melon, and
I look at it and I think that looks delicious,
That looks refreshing, that looks tasty, that looks juicy. And
then I get myself into a state where I think
maybe this year is the year I'll try some watermelon.
I'll be like, you know what, this is pretty good
and I put it in my mouth. Act Jesus Grist,
(07:23):
clean that up. Quite gross the.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Cameras on today because that was disgusting cameras.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
So you tried it every year and then at least
every two years most years.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
And have you can I go? Can I ask you
a questions that what about justin? Have you ever tried
it overseas? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
I have, because quite often I think, like places like Thailand,
I think plays like the Gold Coast. If you go
to a buffet breakfast, yep, they'll have things like watermelon.
I'm like, maybe I'll try it here. I just don't
like it.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
There's different types of melon as well. There's different types
of watermelon eight rock melon for instance. Big ones, fucking
hat big ones, small ones. Yeah, big melons and small melons.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
There's I had a watermelon recently and I feel like
it was in Australia and it was so sweet, like
it was red ass and it was not watery at all.
It was even though it was watermelon, that was it
was milky really really it tasted like watermelon lollies. Oh
I see that's a nice watermelon.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Oh good, because you know, I even just like her
for a watermelon and a blender or the inside part.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
You know, you're I've been talking about this party of
your mother's a lot actually lately, your mum's sixtieth. That
we had a couple of eightieth ye about a year ago. Really, wow,
there was a watermelon on the table there. Actually, Jerry
and I tried to start up the game actually of
you know, when you cut the watermelon in half and
hold it over you downstairs, and then the first and
you're the partner of the first person to finish the
watermelon ones.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I'm sure that would have gone down really well. Yeah,
I didn't catch on that one. No, I don't know.
I don't understand why. Maybe that's the game that we
should play here because about eighty percent of the people
there were, you know, in their eighties.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Oh is that why that didn't catch on? Yeah, maybe
there's a couple of people that I was targeting. Though
there's a few people. I mean Dicky Wells. He looked
like he had much of melon. He likes melon. He
likes melon.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
My kids actually yesterday we had melon and they just
were all over it. They loved it. They won each Nah,
we got a half a watermelon because they're cheap at
the moment, half a watermelon, and they knocked that thing
off with in about twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
't just take a break so we can knock this
thing off in about twenty minutes. Good and we're back.
So your watermelon were you're thankful for watermelon?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Was that you that said that you're thankful form You're
not thankful for the faat You can't eat.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Watermel I don't know we're talking about things we're not
grateful for, and I said.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Fucking watermelon. I realized that that's probably not the point
of Thanksgiving. There was it to end up turning it
onto the things.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
That were not not Thanksgiving, not Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
No.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yeah, So I'm just thankful for everything, man, everything, suit,
I'm thankful for everything.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Boys, I'm thankful for summer, and I'm really happy that
summer's coming around. Where this Sunday, the first is going
to be first of December, and I know that I
look around at everybody I'm speaking to at the moment,
goes this is the same thing to me. Jeez, I
can't wait till the end of the year. I can't
wait till then. This has been a long year, and
I think for a lot of people it's been a
(10:24):
hard year. I think it's been a hard year for
a lot of people. Financially, it's been tough. A lot
of people listening their jobs and I feel for those
people and a lot of people who are running businesses
currently finding it very very tough. In fact, in my life,
I have never seen it as hard as what it
is right now. And that's going back through the late
(10:47):
eighties through nineteen eighty seven through that financial crisis in
two thousand and eight. I think this has been the
toughest year's toughest year of them all.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
How a weir would you have been though of the
financial situation in the late eighties?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Was it like eighty seven? Well, a lot of people
went a lot of people were going bankrupt, and so
and I knew if I knew of a few people
whose families who went bankrupt. Oh well, and so, yeah,
I knew a little bit about it. And I used
to watch the news, and my parents watched the news,
so I watched the news every night. And so it
(11:23):
was Unemployment was very, very high in those days. It
was nearly ten percent. Oh Jesus, Yeah, it was much
higher than I don't know why. Maybe they looked at
the unemployment figures were slightly different. I think they had
a different way of measuring them. Maybe, yeah, that could
be the only reason. But yeah, high unemployment. Why has
this year been so tough? Is it because of that
(11:45):
interest rates and so off the back of off the
back of the inflation and the printing of heaps and
heaps of money during COVID to try and keep things
cranking and all that money that was floating around, and
then they went, there's too much money. Inflation's gone up,
the price of everything's gone up, everyone's losing money, so
let's crank things back down. So then they pull Then
(12:08):
they put interest rates up, and then all of a sudden,
everyone has to spend heaps of money on their mortgage
and they don't have any other money to spend, and
then it's a messive problem. It's interesting. Actually, yesterday I
saw the just to be boring, but I saw the
Reserve Bank Governor Adrian orr was congratulating the Reserve Bank
on a job well done on bringing inflation back into check,
(12:31):
and I thought to myself, that's odd. You printed heaps
of money, created inflation. And then they went, there's a
cost of loving crisis. Everything's become really really expensive. There's
way too much money around. We need to now manufacture
a recession. So then they stop printing money, pull interestrates back, sorry,
send interest rates up, and then unemployment goes up, and
(12:54):
then people who's their jobs, everyone struggles. There's no money
around anymore, and then they're congratulating themselves on pulling everything
back again.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
It's not a great time to be in your twenties
in Auckland and I'm in.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I think in general I'm lucky that I'm in a
solely more you know, fortunate camp. But there's a lot
to think about right now, and a lot of people
are struggling to focus on any kind of fun, aren't they?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Like?
Speaker 3 (13:20):
I like this when things like this happen. And you know,
it's amazing how many kind of negative other things follow
when we get into this trend of just because you
feel like now right politically, this year been nothing necessarily.
I mean, obviously some kind of major things going on
at the moment in New Zealand in terms of what's
going on with Mary and Packy Horn all that kind
of thing.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
But.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
It just feels like this year there has been very
few positive things to hang your head on and go like,
you know what, God, wasn't that a good moment? And
do we need those moments? I'm just trying to figure
out how do we go into next year and go,
you know what, this feels like a year where we
can make something happen. Are we still hung over from
COVID lockdowns?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Probably? Yeah? Well, this all of this economic stuff is
all to do with COVID. There's just a underlying tension
that is in New Zealand right now. Do you know
what it is? That everything in the end comes back
down to the economy, and that's always been the case.
Everything comes down because if you don't have a job
and you don't have any money, you can't go and
(14:22):
do anything, or you can't look after your family, you
can't pay your mortgage, you're worried about your security and
your house. Everything comes down to the economy at the
end of the day. And people always say about elections,
it's going to be this social issue or it's going
to be that social issue, and people do enjoy talking
about social issues, so they're quite oftentimes passionate about it.
At the end of the day, it's always the economy
(14:45):
because your job affects everything. If you don't have a job,
you don't have any money to spend. Everything stems from that.
So that's the problem that in time like this it's tough.
And then coming into Christmas, when traditionally retail spending would
come up, Yeah, why have we gone all economics on this?
(15:08):
Retail spinning would come up and that would give people
a lot a lot of relief. I know, and a
sector that I've got something to do with the hospitality industry.
It's never been harder. There are more bars and restaurants
shutting down now than ever have been, and that's based
on how much people have to spend discretionary money to spend.
I mean, you don't go out spending money that you
(15:29):
don't have.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
That's pretty incredible because you are involved with one in
particular establishment that I can think. I've been for the
Look in Soda and it's in a great spot on
Podsonbury Road, and yet that is still struggling to even
you know, get anywhere right now, Like it's yeah, and
that's in one of the best locations in probably the country.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, I know we're lucky. Let we still break even. Yeah,
that's all good, but definitely nobody's there's a couple of
establishment and supreenting money. But that's the thing. People don't
feel like they've got confidence and they don't have a
lot of money lying around. So so but that'll that'll
come back. Don't worry, it'll come back next year, year after.
It'll come back because it's cyclical. It has to. It's
not going to be like this for either. So the
(16:09):
good thing is at least I feel like the worst
is gone surely.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
So what we've done there is we started showing what
we were thankful for. Yeah, and we got into what
we weren't thankful for, which then ended up chatting about
the fact that no one's got any money.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No, I say this normally as a joke. Can we
actually delete this? Actually delete that?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
We can't because we've got kind of Oh we can't.
Actually I think, actually delete that? Well, they stay there.
We could ask him. So I'm actually I'm embarrassed about what.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
No, Look, I thought, actually thought it was quite interesting, Jerry,
why did you Why are you embarrassed about?
Speaker 1 (16:42):
It's just such boring shit? Of course it is boring,
cliche bullshit. Who he is? Okay? Or shall we start again?
Then you really? Yep? And welcome to the podcast for
the way. How do you do it?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Now?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
You do it? You go? Welcome to the Unnamed Podcast. Thursday,
the twenty out of no in between four it is Halloween,
no Thanksgiving, boys Giving? What's everyone thanksful for?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Oh? I'm thankful for a lot of things. Actually, in fact,
I'm thankful for everything. I'm thankful for the summer of cricket.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'm thankful for the fact that we can always start again.
You can always start podcasts again. You can always start
life again. Even when you make a mistake and you
look back on something and you think, God, I never
should have done that. That was deeply embarrassing. I'm familiated myself.
You can always It's okay, that's the past, the past,
the past. You can always start again. Hey, sorry, where
do you go?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
I was just gonna say, do you know, guys, I'm
so thankful for watermelon. I love watermelon so much everything.
Every year I look no, every year, I look forward
to getting my mouth around the juicy taste of pink watermelon,
spitting out those seeds.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Do you not like the seed? Do you not eat
the seeds? I fucking hate watermelon, the seeds. They don't
have seeds anymore. Did you go to like a shrink
seedless water of melon. That's where it's at, bro seedless
grape suits.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, you don't get what anyone ever had a pup
in the wine, pep in your and your feces. I'm
sure guilty. Okay, right, short one today, boys, that's all right,
(18:32):
just a couple of minutes. We've got to go and
commentation some cricket.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Mister Wells, Yes, looking forward to that. I can't wait.
It's going to be exciting England smashing it around. You
get in New Zealand bowling cricket balls. Why the fucking
we so low here? We had a good radio show. No,
it was good. We've had a good My fault. I
blame myself.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Sorry, no, sorry, I think I actually started getting a
little bit down.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
That was the issue with that. I did actually start
to start it. That's my fault. Yeah, take responsibility. She
wants to sit down about this. I'm thankful for I'm happy.
I'm I'm actually very happy.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
When do we get to do the opposite and like,
complain day you don't want.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
To Nobody wants to hear anyone complain.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Well, I just want to complain about that last fifteen
minutes she did on the economy.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh yeah, well that we've deleted that. So oh you
forgot we deluted that. Okay, all right, love you all
hereby days
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